Automobile-wrench combination



H. ROSENBERG.

AUTOMOBILE WRENCH COMBINATION.

APPLICATION man AUG.14, 1919.

1,353,4=96, v PatentedSept. 21,1920.

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wwwz/d ATTORNEY UNIT STATS") HEYMAN ROSENBERG, OF NEVJ YORK, N. Y.

AUTOMOBILE-WRENCH COMBINATION.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 21, 1920.

Application filed August 14, 1919. Serial No. 317,417.

T 0 all whom it mag concern:

Be it known that I, HEYMAN ROSENBERG, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at New York'city, county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Automobile-Wrench Combinations, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates'to improvements in wrenches, or rather to a novel arrangement of a set of wrenches especially arranged for automobilists. One of the objects of my invention is to provide a set. of wrenches assembled in a suitable neat-appearing case, said wrenches being at all times retained by the case whether in use or not. The wrenches are arranged so that any one of them may be moved to project from the case sufficiently to engage a nut. When the wrenches are not in use, they will be concealed by the case, which may be packed away in any suitable receptacle or even carried in a pocket.

In the drawing, which form part of this specification,-

Figure 1 illustrates in elevation, partly in section, one form of my improvement;

Fig. 2 illustrates in elevation another form of my invention;

Fig. 3 is a sectional plan view ofthe form of my device illustrated in Fig. 1;

Fig. 4 is a longitudinal sectional view of the form illustrated in. Fig. 1, illustrating one of the wrenches extended for use; and

Fig. 5 is a sectional plan view of the form of my device illustrated in Fig. 2.

My improvement consists of a casing 6 containing, in this instance, a plurality of double-end wrenches, 7 8, 9, 10 and 11, and a double-ended screw-driver 12. Each wrench and the screw-driver, is provided with a slot 13 through which a retaining bolt 14 passes, said bolt having a threaded end 15 to engage a threaded opening 16 in one of the walls of the casing 6. The bolt 14 is provided with a head 17 having a shoulder 18 to bear against the adjacent tool, be it the screw-driver 12 or a wrench, the arrangement of the tools being immaterial. When the bolt '14 is screwed down, the tools will be firmly held in either an extended or retracted position. Should any one of the wrenches be needed, the bolt 14 will be loosened and the desired wrench moved out as indicated in Fig. 4, after which the bolt 14 will be tightened to hold the ex- I screwdriver.

tended wrench while it is being used. The

same operation would, of course, be-performed should Idesire to use'the screwdriver. Each wrench-and screw-driver is cut away as at 19' and 20 to lighten it, but I prefer to leave projections 21 to provide guides for the tools while being moved in or out. The guides or projections will maintain the tools at all times in alinement or in parallelism with the axis of the casing.

When a tool is moved out, the guides adj acent the projecting end will not leave the casing, as can beseen in Fig. 4. Hence, the tools when in use will be firmly supported. It will, "of course, be understood that a number ofdifierent size wrenches can be provided, especially when double-ended wrenches are used. The wrenches may be removed fromthe casing and used if desirable by removing bolt 14. I do not limitmyself to the proportions herein employed,

as they may be changed to suit conditions. In the form illustrated in Figs. 2 and 5, the tools indicated by 22 will be provided with notches 23 and 24, and the casing 25 will be provided with a cutaway portion or opening 26 in order that the notches 23- and 24 can be engaged by the 'fingers to move any one of the wrenches outwardly. In this fornnl may employ a bolt such as 14 and for the same purpose, or I may movabl'y secure the wrenches by means of a post 27, which is headed over at each end, said post passing through a slot 28 in each tool. It will be of course understood that a casing such as 6 provide at each end of the slot 13 in the screw-driver a somewhat larger opening 13" to receive the shoulder 18 of the bolt 14 when said bolt is screwed down to fasten the After shoulder 18 has engaged an opening 13*, the screw-driver will ping after it has been extended for use, I

not slip when put to use. The slots 13 in I the wrenches are not ordinarily enlarged at the. ends. Theslot 28 in the screw-driver illustrated in Fig. 5, will be enlarged at the ends, as at 28*. I

Having. described my invention, what I slidably mounted tools within the casing,

eated in line With said opening, for the insertion of the fingers'to' extend said tools.

2. The combination of a easing, a tool slidably retained thereby and ELII'iLIlgBClfOIY extension therefrom, said tool being p r0- vided with a slot, the slot" being enlarged at each end, a retaining bolt passing. through said casing and said slot, and a shoulder carried by the bolt arranged to' engage either of the enlarged ends of said slot Whenthe tool is extended for use, substantially as and for the purpose set forth:..

-3. In combination with a casing, a tool slidably mounted therein and adapted for extension therefrom, the tool having a cutaway portion at lts side edges to provide a plurality of alined projections bearing against the inner Wall of the casing and arranged to maintain the tool in parallelism with the longitudinal axis of the casing, and means to secure the tool in retracted or extended position. i

Signed at New York city, N. Y, this 12th day of August, 1919;

V HEYMAN ROSENBERG. V

WVitnesses: r e I EDWARD A. JARVIS, MAURICE BLOCK. 

